President in the family / by Shannon Lanier -- So many names / by A.B. Westrick -- The will, the woman, and the archive / by Catherine Sasanov -- Overcoming amnesia: how I learned the forgotten history of two families -- Linked by slavery / by Bill Sizemore -- Oregon's slave history / by R. Gregory Nokes -- Seed of the fancy maid / by Rodney Williams -- State line / by Antoinette Broussard -- The plantation cake / by Leslie Stainton -- Am I black / by Eileen Jackson -- The immeasurable distance between us / by Thomas Norman DeWolf -- Making connections / by Karen Branan -- A millennial facing the legacies of slavery / by Fabrice Guerrier -- Standing on the shoulders of my ancestors / by Tammarrah Lee -- So close and so far away / by Elisa D. Pearmain -- Born both innocent and accountable: a moral reckoning / by Debian Marty -- The Terretts of Oakland Plantation: an essay of atonement / by David Terrett Beumée -- Not a wound too deep / by Karen Stewart-Ross -- To see / by Sara Jenkins -- Digging up the woodpile / by Sharon Leslie Morgan -- On being involved / by Stephanie Harp -- Changing the narrative / by Joseph McGill -- Tangled vines: a bloodline shaped by slavery / by Grant Hayter-Menzies -- A dream deferred along Holman's Creek / by Sarah Kohrs -- The tale of two sisters / by Betty Kilby Baldwin and Phoebe Kilby.
Summary:
"Slavery's Descendants brings together twenty-five contributors from a variety of racial backgrounds, to tell their personal stories of exhuming and exorcising America's racist past. Together, they help us confront the legacy of slavery and reclaim a more complete picture of U.S. history, one cousin at a time"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.